{"id":613964,"date":"2026-05-31T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613964\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T17:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:00:09","slug":"urgent-alert-a-mysterious-asteroid-forces-surprise-action-from-astronomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613964\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent alert: a mysterious asteroid forces surprise action from astronomers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tUrgent alert: a mysterious asteroid forces surprise action from astronomers &#8211; Futura-Sciences<\/p>\n<p>May 31, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            3 min    <\/p>\n<p>            <img width=\"1280\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/urgent-alert-a-mysterious-asteroid-forces-surprise-action-from-astronomers.webp\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><br \/>\n                    The James Webb Space Telescope&#8217;s (JWST) &#8220;urgent discovery&#8221; observing time has just been allocated to the study of 2024 YR4, the most threatening asteroid we know of. \u00a9 photoopus, Adobe Stock<\/p>\n<p>\n            See also\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Urgent alert: a mysterious asteroid forces surprise action from astronomers &#8211; Futura-Sciences May 31, 2026 3 min The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,207715,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-613964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-astronomy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}